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Just another quotation
"It seems to me that literary composition is like love. When one has begun to write something of one's own, it doesn't matter how disgusted one may become, one returns to the ink-pot like a drunkard to his cups." ---Miss Armstrong in "Miss Armstrong's Circumstances" by R.B. Cunninghame Graham found in The Oxford Book of Scottish Short ( Read more... ) -
I do my best thinking with pen(cil) in hand.
Anybody got another way to say: "a weight lifted off one's shoulders" (or something similar) in only one word? -
Depressing moods yield decent inspiration...sometimes.
I think I'm the only one that posts anything here lately... Got another poem, if anyone's around and bored. I wrote it a bit ago...but I looked at it today and switched a few things. Rhyme scheme's different than my usual (other than "none" haha...) since it's 1&3 instead of 2&4. Especially odd since it ends on the rhyme, so it's unevenly numbered ( Read more... ) -
just more homework avoidance...
Three quotations by Maxine Hong Kingston that I thought were nice... (I'm currently avoiding writing my paper on this woman...)
“I feel that everyone has a blurred area, which is a border between their imagination and what actually happens”
“Most literary forms are not artificial. They reflect the patterns of the human heart.”
“Language is important ( Read more... ) -
proof of my (un)productive attempt at homework
*shock* I wrote a poem...how long has it been since I did THAT ( Read more... ) -
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Hi to all!
I am not a native speaker of English, and i have recently had an argument about the following expression in English: "easy-easy" or "easy easy". Can anybody tell me the meaning of it?
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Please proofread these sentences
Hi guys! I am not a native speaker and really need your help! I need to proofread these ten sentences, thank you!
Type your cut contents here.
1. In order to raise enough income revenue were going to haveto raise taxes.
2. When the new telephone books arrive. Be sure to recycle the old ones.
3. The number of academically gifted ( Read more... ) -
a poem...and a rather lousy one at that
The following is a poem I submitted to a poetry contest earlier...sometime during the school year, in the early hours of the morning when everything makes sense and the idiocy of my action didn't hit home until sometime that evening ( Read more... ) -
POV
Is it all right to switch POVs of characters (I wouldn't go overboard, though), say two characters? In some of the books I've read, they start a new chapter if it's the POV of someone other than the main character ( Read more... ) -
The Passive Voice
As it just so happens, I like the passive voice ( Read more... )